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O. WILLMS. Saddle Bag for Physicians Use.

No. 233,387. Patented-Oct. 19,1880.

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G. WILLMS. Saddle Bag for Physician's Use.

No. 233,387. Patented Oct. 19,1880.

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CHARLES WILLMS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SADDLE-BAGS FOR PHYSICIANS USE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,387, dated October 19, 1880.

Application filed August 28, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES WILLMs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saddle-Bags for Physicians Use, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in saddle-bags for physicians use provided with hinged compartments specially adapted for carrying medicines; and the objects of my improvements are to provide greater security for the lower hinged compartment when closed, to simplify the construction, to lessen the cost of manufacture, to afl'ord weather-protection for the joints of independently-hinged compartments, and. to afford facilities of access to the upper compartment without unlocking or opening the lower compartment or compartments.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 represents an end view of the saddle-bags; Fig.2,a vertical section through the same, the hinged compartment of one side being open; Fig. 3, a section showing the metallic weather-guards for the protection of the end-compartment joints. Fig. 4 shows the end joint covering-plates and their hinge-pintles detached from the compartments; and Fig. 5 details showing the thumb-lock for the hinged compartment. The compartments forming each side or saddle bag are united by a strap for being carried over the saddle in the usual manner, and the compartments of each of these bags are hinged one upon the other, so as to be opened for access.

Each compartment is composed of a sheetmetal case, preferably of tin, and separately covered with leather, the hinge being at the back and at the top of the lower compartment. The manner of hinging these parts is not only such as to form a close joining at the back, but means for covering the end joinin gs of the compartments. For the hinge I use metal plates at a, riveted to the ends near the bottom of the upper compartment, 11, and provided with short pintles c c, which enter a bearing-tube, cl, soldered upon the back edge of the lower compartment, 6. These metal plates at a depend sufficiently to overlap and protect the joining of the lower compartment with the upper, at the end from the weather, and they also serve as a means of bracing the lower compartment upon its hinge and form guides for a true joining. One of these plates serves, also, as the means of limiting the opening of the lower compartment, and also as a means of forming a lock-catch for securing the lower compartment when closed, without regard to the opening or closing of the upper compartment. The upper compartment forms a cover for thelower one, and is itself covered by the usual saddle-bag flap f, which serves as a covering for the outside joiht of the upper and lower compartments, being fastened to the lower compartment by a thumb-bolt, g, in the usual manner.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the compartments of one of the side or saddle bags as open, and in this position the slot h in the metal hingeplate and weather-guard serves, in connection with the stop-pin t, on the lower compartment, to limit such opening. The lower compartment is opened and closed firmly but freely between its end plate-guards.

The tube forming the pintle-bearing is soldered to the back edge of the case-lining, and it may be filed flat at the back to prevent forming a ridge, or it may be secured so as to be within the casing. The pintles do not extend entirely through this tube, but from short bearings which are inserted in each end of the tube, and the plates to which they are secured are afterward riveted to the upper compartment, as shown, thus not only giving a very durable but cheap construction of hinge and a convenient manner of uniting independent compartments.

The thumb-lock for the lower compartment is formed by a pin, j, secured in the end in position to enter a recess-catch, k, in the edge of the hinge-plate a. The outer end of this locking-pin forms a thumb-hold, and its shank is flattened on opposite sides at n n, so as to enter said recess -catch k, and upon being turned therein will fill said recess and thus form the lock. The plate is provided with pins 8 s in such relation to the recess-catch and the locking-pin shank as to limit the turning of the latter either to lock or unlock the lower compartment. The compartments, being separately made, are hinged by simply applying and riveting the pintle'plates, and the attached tube for these pintles etl'ectually closes the back joint of the two compartments.

1n securing the hingeplates, as described. the bottom of the upper compartment will closely join the pintle-bearing tube while giving freedom for tlexure.

I claim- 1. In saddle-bags for physicians use which have an upper and a lower hinged compartment, the hinge thereof, formed by the top edge tubular bearing (1 of the metal lining of the lower compartment, and the short pintles 0 c at the back edge of the side plates (1, the said tubular edge serving as the means of closing the back joint when the compartments are closed and inclosing the pintles, substantially as herein described.

2. In saddle-bags for physicians use, the means herein described of locking the lower compartment to the upper, consisting of the recess-catch kof one of the hinge-plates of the upper compartment and the turning lockingpin j of the lower compartment, substantially as herein set forth.

3. ln saddle-bags for physicians use which have an upper and a lowercompartment hinged together, one or both of the end hinge-plates carried by the upper compartment, having a l'ecess'catch, 1;, and a segmental slot, h, in combination with a locking-pin,j, for said reeess-catch, and a stop-pin, i, for said segmental slot, carried by the lower compartment, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES WILLMS. \\'ituesses:

JOSHUA M. MYERS, L. ll. SLIUER. 

